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Davina is a Dutch social artist and graphic designer based in Rotterdam. She froms visual strategies across music, community and identity, reflecting the worlds shaped by sound and collective culture.  






Experience
                                1. Junior designer
                                                                Internship
                                                                                /summer job:
                                                                      Offff studio
                                                Rotterdam
                          2. Communication & Graphic Design
                                    Internship
                                                              Limestone Books
                                                                                    Maastricht
                                                                                                   
 Education
                      1. Grafisch Lyceum
                                                          Rotterdam
                                                                                         Graphic Design
                                         Lifestyle and Media Mbo BOL4
                                              2. Willem de Kooning Academie
                                     Graphic Design Bachelor
                                                     Honours Programme: Visual Culture


                      
     



  







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Email: davinapoot@live.nl
Insta: @davinapoot.works

Blight




I started off the process writing a poem based on ‘Shadowbook’ by Miriam Rasch, which I used some creative code for to make it move. Check it out here: https://codepen.io/davinapoot/pen/powyegM







Blight is a social platform that creates a space where people can post their thoughts in a text format on a shared thread. All the posts have an ending time of being ‘readable’. As the posts get shared more and more, the post gets more and more distorted. The ‘Download Pdf” gives the users a chance to save the content and print it before it disappears. The pdf (post catalogue) provides the texts shared by the user along with more information and context.The intention of creating the print function is to make the interaction with the screen shorter and the interaction with paper and other people longer, adding back interaction with physical material and other humans. The pdf can easily be printed on each colour of paper, as it has only black contents.

The digital deterioration that happens on the platform makes our usage of the media visible, something that is currently not happening in other social media platforms. Whenever we post or participate on social networking websites, we deliberately share information about ourselves, we contribute to our own active digital footprints. This information can be tracked and used by others. Most of us aren’t aware of that because it is not visible. For example, each time we share a post from someone else, we contribute to our digital footprint. This is why, with designing Blight as an alternate social platform, I wanted whatever is ‘used’ by sharing to be affected, distorted, deteriorated visually for everybody to see.

Blight definition:

(verb) have a severely detrimental effect on



See more of my process here: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMkXXSLI=/ 






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